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Plot Summary:
A look at the lives and loves of a group of young ex-patriates living in Paris. Part of Amazon's Pilot Season, in which viewers, after watching the pilot episode, get to vote on which show they want to return for more episodes. "The Cosmopolitans" didn't get picked up by Amazon after the pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, talky
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Loners (2000)
Plot Summary:
Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to Prague from Macedonia because it is according to her the best place for UFOs to land, but her real reason for coming is somewhat different... Hanka is followed by the crazy Ondrej, until then a respected brain surgeon, and married with two kids. Through him she meets Jacob, who uses copious amounts of weed in order to be constructive in this gloomy world. On the other hand, this destroys his short-term memory - and he forgets that he already has a girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, sexual, feel good, sexy
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Let Go (2011)
Plot Summary:
Walter Dishman, a married and melancholy parole officer, deals with three eccentric ex-convicts who have been placed under his supervision.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, captivating, light, touching, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Love Is Not What It Used to Be (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alex comes across Lucias life, two youngsters who start discovering each other, the escape velocity will determine their future.Paz y Jorge see how their relationship is fading and they don't know what to do, hyperbola, whose bodies will never go back to their point of origin. Albert and Irene meet after some decades of separation, parabola whose trajectories, it seemed, were not going to join again. Love is Not What It Used to Be is the story of the physical law of divergent trajectories.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Special Delivery (2002)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Jungle (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days and seven nights in Paris with just seven Euros in their pocket, he will pay off all of their debts. If not, they will have to learn to fend for themselves. Confident of their abilities to survive in the jungle that is Paris, Vincent and Mathias willingly accept the offer, but soon regret doing so.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Hollywood Palms (2001)
Plot Summary:
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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V.O.S. (2009)
Plot Summary:
A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, meta, realistic, witty
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Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Plot Summary:
The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Plot Summary:
Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog's corpse and effects, and our one-gloved heroine is much keener on him than on her rather lackluster date.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Pink Lemonade (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ever have one of those nights where nothing seems to be going right? Ever have a job that made you ponder "this place would be fun if it didn't suck so much"? Welcome to food-service hell. Natalie, the waitress, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her social life is in turmoil, and the endless barrage of customers just won't give her a break. Clint, the manager, isn't exactly a people-person. He's lewd, rude, and totally insensitive... until you get to know him. Kevin, the busboy, is a nice guy with a dark brooding secret. He's quirky and artistic, but don't light a match near this powder keg! Throw a couple of wise cracking trash-talkers and some inept thieves into the mix, and this is sure to be one night you'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, witty, hot
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Thirty-Five Something (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Caffeine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, clever, realistic, witty
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This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Paris-Manhattan (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, the pharmacist Alice has been an obsessed Woody Allen fan since she was fifteen and has seen all his movies and talks to him alone in her room. When she meets Pierre in a night-club, she finds that he loves jazz and she believes he is her prince charming. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, they immediately fall in love with each other and marry each other. Years later, Alice is a spinster that administrates the pharmacy that belonged to her father and believes that movies can heal many diseases. However her father insistently tries to find a husband for her. When the alarm technician Victor meets Alice, she does not see any future relationship with him. But one day, Victor brings Alice to meet Woody Allen in Paris and the director gives an advice to Alice. [Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Hannah Has a Ho-Phase (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Leslie gets fed up with her prudish roommate, Hannah, she challenges her to the bet of a lifetime: Hannah must sleep with ten guys while Leslie does the unthinkable and "re-virginizes".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious
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Forget Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, intense, touching, realistic, clever, witty, non fiction
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The Art of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Art of Love is composed of several chapters, which follows several Parisian couples.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, witty, humorous, romantic, satirical, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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2 Million Stupid Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
A handful of insults and fighting best friends, not quite the Birthday presents every girl hopes for. Melissa s not every girl. She is determined to collect insults from all of her past boyfriends before her birthday night is over. But her journey to rid herself of her bad hook-up karma leads to some pretty strange situations, and by the nights end she might just learn a thing or two about relationships. Will things start looking up for the insulted party girl, or will she be stuck with bad karma for another year?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Plot Summary:
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair Salon, Lilliana (Tatyana Ali) is in way over her head. When she's not caught up in the daily dramas between her coworkers - the flamboyant stylist Delicious, the hotheaded ex-stripper Xenobia and the outspoken manicurist Ming - Lilliana is busy combing out hair disasters, breaking up client catfights and raising a son on her own. But when the salon's other owner Simone (Stacey Dash) decides to sell the shop and pocket the profits, Lilliana must choose whether to take her cut and run...or stand her ground and fight for a place they all call home.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: talky, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, touching, semi serious, independent film
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How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, sexy, realistic, witty, erotic, talky, sex comedy
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The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, offbeat, independent film
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Supporting Characters (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film
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Nice and Easy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, uplifting, feel good, talky, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. Ironically enough, Thakkar's character in the film is exactly the type of person he barred from parties in those days.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, witty, hot
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Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Plot Summary:
Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. Thea creates an elaborate proposal, but is thwarted by his reluctance. An obsessed ex-boyfriend, married & single friends, and Thea s father & pastor all take part in the tug of war for her heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, independent film, sexual
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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LOL (2006)
Plot Summary:
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, humorous, talky, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Newlyweds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Utopian Society (2003)
Plot Summary:
6 college students from different backgrounds, are assigned to work together on a final project. These six students have so far spent no time together, can't stand each other and must pass this final assignment in order to pass the class. The assignment is to create a utopian society, on paper. They've had all semester to work on the project but in the tradition of most college group assignments, have opted to wait until the last minute to cram the entire semester's work into one night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, mumblecore, talky